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...Hua drove to a flat she was renting next to her daughter’s school in the district of Pudong, east of the Huangpu river, just as that too was being locked down....
...When he disappeared in 2002, it was because a judge sent him to out-of-state foster care, which came to include stints in Nebraska, Florida and Ohio....
...Ginsburg died in 2020 aged 87, months before the end of Donald Trump’s presidency....
...Joan Didion, a razor-sharp observer of American life whose essays eschewed its sentimentality and reshaped its journalism, has died, aged 87....
...Britain’s private schools lose their grip on Oxbridge The anger of wealthy, mostly white parents about losing the advantages they expected to be able to buy their children by sending them to the top schools...
...No vaguely affordable US public healthcare coverage could work without compulsory insurance....
...“The Democrats are an ‘upstairs-downstairs’ party with a large missing gap in the middle,” says Michael Lind, a visiting fellow at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs in Austin, Texas....
...But Ferguson turned him into such an advocate for the ballot box that he was later elected to public office as state representative for Missouri’s 78th District....
...“We have no control over the providers of our content,” the company warns....
...Now 87, Mr Buffett wields huge influence over US business and finance, usually positive....
...“His attribute is to see what the public wants to hear, and to say that, first to get into power, and then to stay there,” says a former senior Hungarian official. “The problem is he has no scruples....
...“There’s no possibility of a criminal case even though this looks like a clear-cut case of insider trading,” he said....
...After Nebraska’s legislature voted for repeal last year, a proposal to reinstate the death penalty will be on the state’s ballot....
...Ms Hodge said the department had received no applications to open primary free schools from half of districts with a high or severe forecast for extra school places....
...But he seems determined to engage the public....
...There are no national statistics but other schools also report rapid increases, and the number of language schools has mushroomed....
...The budget gap in Chicago’s school district alone is $1bn, mainly because of pension liabilities, while the combined unfunded pension liabilities of the city and the school district runs to over $27bn....
...Coursera, set up last year by two academics at Stanford, boasts more than 4.7m subscribers and 444 courses from 87 universities across the world....
...The local public school is “too much trouble” so she takes virtual courses online. Television and Facebook are her main activities. “There are way too many dangers here” to spend much time outside....
...Gulliver didn’t come from a wealthy family and did not go to public school....
...About 98 per cent of habitations are now covered by primary schools. I propose to increase the plan allocation for school education from Rs.26,800 crore in 2009-10 to Rs.31,036 crore in 2010-11....
...The authority of the DPJ leader has since been called into question No one can doubt the scale of Yukio Hatoyama’s ambitions....
...In the first stage, a total of 115 pilot districts have been selected for such convergence....
...Medtronic, for example, which created one of the first personal pacemakers, runs an initiative in Minneapolis-St Paul that subsidises hands-on science classes in public schools....
...Dr Jotham Musinguzi, Uganda’s leading population adviser, has the serenity of a man who can do no more....
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